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A. G. MARSH.

MITTEN.

No. 319,987. Patented June 16, 1885.

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ALFRED GREENOUGH MARSH, OF WARNER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO THE MERRIMAOK GLOVE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MITTEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,987, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed March 23, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED GREENOUGH MARSH, of Warner, in the county of Merrimac, of the State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mittens; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 a rear view, of a mitten as made in accordance with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

The object of my improvement is to enable 1 to be utilized,inthe manufacture of leather mittens, what are usually termed waste pieces of material, generally too small for a whole back or front to be made from, or too small for the formation of one of the two parts of which the thumb has generally been constructed.

In carrying out my invention I compose the back A of the mitten of two longitudinal gore-pieces, a at, extending lengthwise of such back, and of a series of intermediate sections or pieces, I) b, &c., extending from one gorepiece to the other, such intermediate pieces,b, being arranged in range with each other, and with their next adjacent edges in contact, and connected by cast-over stitching 0, running from each to the next one in succession, all the said intermediate pieces at their ends being arranged edge to edge with the gore-pieces and jointed to them by cast-over stitchings d, as represented. The front B of the mitten, except the thumb O, I compose of several pieces, de 6, placed edge to edge, and connected by cast-over stitchings f, the said (No model.)

front at its longer edges being united by sewing to those of the back. The front of the 0 thumb I usually make of a single piece, and the back of such thumb of two or more pieces sewed together; but the thumb may be formed of its back in one single piece and its front in another. The upper section, d, of the front 5 I propose to have in one piece, extending upward from the base or lowest part of the 'thumb, as represented, all the wrist portion of the front being in one or more sections, 6, stitched together at their abutting edges. The longitudinal gores serve as stays to prevent the intermediate back pieces or the portions of the front from being torn or pulled apart while the mitten may bein use. Such gores I usually make of leather thinner or more flexilethan that of the intermediate pieces or of the front, in order that the hand of a person having the mitten on it may be easily closed, or, in other words, the second, third, fourth, and fifth fingers be turned down with little 6o constraint toward the palm.

I claim- A mitten having the front provided with a thumb and composed of a single piece of material extending upward from the base of the said thumb, and of one or more wrist portions or pieces extending below thesaid base, in combination with the back composed of two longitudinal gore-pieces and a series of intermediate sections or pieces, all being ar- 0 ranged and united by sewing, substantially as set forth.

ALFRED GREENOUGH MARSH.

Witnesses;

A. G. CARROLL, G. O. GEORGE. 

